Nicky's Journal

amazonv @ 2019-05-29T12:28:00

2019-05-04T18:19:27Z

Day 5

2 meetings

3 1:1

lots of reading

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amazonv @ 2019-05-29T12:28:00

2019-05-02T18:17:52Z

Day 4

Select medical / dental / vision benefits

Cancelled cobra

Payroll signup

2 meetings

1:1

Coffee Chat

Business Cards design and order

then we had to take a selfie, i'm open and share a lot but actually this is starting to rub me the wrong way "New team member: Take a selfie in your new home office or workspace and add it to the "New Hire Tweets" and add your twitter handle next to your image if you have one."

https://gitlab.com/NicoleSchwartz

like i can't tell if it's optional or not but there is a lot of linking my personal social media to work accounts, on my business cards, on my profile, etc. Actually starting to feel a little weird about that, I usually don't mind it being a quick search but making it one click....

"New team member: Connect with GitLab's social media sites: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube."

see what i mean?

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amazonv @ 2019-05-29T11:28:00

2019-05-01T17:20:29Z

Day 3

2 meetings and one office hours

Lots of reading

Lots of agreeing / signing that i read things

Some mini trainings

YES! UTC and specific date format mandated! YYYY-MM-DD

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#scheduling-meetings

Implicit Bias Tests

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

Security Training

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNc9f-LH6pU

401k sign up

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amazonv @ 2019-04-29T19:28:00

2019-05-01T01:47:42Z

Day 2

I woke up early to hopefully get some of the issues I was having on day 1 resolved.

I posted some questions in chat right after waking up and a few people jumped in right away to assist! I thought I might have time to reach breakfast, nope.

So many meetings, and two in a row of all the new people introducing ourselves which seemed slightly repetitive (it was a timing thing).

4 real meetings and 2 social meetings. They believe in having social meetings with your team and not your team because of the 100% remote model. It seems like a fun way to socialize.

I completed my sexual harassment / hostile work environment annual training, actually not bad as far as those go.

I submitted 2 MRs in order to clarify on-boarding things and hopefully make future people's times a little easier. One was just a bad link (data had moved). I did that with the help of my on-boarding buddy.

I am working a little late in order to try and catch up.

Maybe almost caught up, some items are blocked and not counting those, and some items I will need to redo when I get the company laptop.

Note:

So far I have been getting up way earlier than I want or have as my planned work day, hopefully after things get settled I can shift this.
I have been wearing real clothes, I don't have many PJs here, I hope shifting to PJs in the future will be fine.
I know I need a new desk, preferably sit/stand
I know I need a new chair, a good one
I think I need a web cam (external)
I need a whiteboard
I need doodle space and perhaps a digital doodle pad that can get digitized as an image / OCR or maybe just notepads and pictures with my phone.
I need a better, ergonomic, keyboard
I need a really nice ANC and mic headset

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amazonv @ 2019-04-29T18:28:00

2019-05-01T00:50:14Z

Day 1 - Product Manager, Secure

Day one was mostly on-boarding with a few meetings

Meetings
I had four. I was slightly surprised, and very happy that meetings start on time, meetings end on time, and during meetings everyone collaboratively takes the notes. I when volunteering for non profits and gaming take notes and leave it open for collaboration but rarely get assistance. This is awesome.

On-Boarding
There are so many accounts to sign up / configure!
This was a bit surprising because they are such an integrated product themselves. and promote not having to stitch their product together to get a devops pipeline. But there was chat, HR, video conferencing, email, etc.

Everyone is very welcoming, and there are many ex-Rackers

I didn't get done the target day 1 things so I felt bad, but everyone said not to worry.

I won't be getting my company laptop until next week, and apparently it does not work well with windows or Lenovo, and the only computer I have is windows on lenovo and I am not keen to follow the recommendation to install ubuntu on it. I might spin up a VM if needed.

I submitted an expense report, and will be attending a company meeting next week. I am excited to meet so many people.

https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/contribute/

GitLab not just GitHub competitor, it's an integrated end to end code ecosystem.

There are nearly 600 people!

They are about transparency, the handbook is online and public

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/

They are super big on their values, CREDIT (Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, Diversity, Iteration, and Transparency)

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/

GitLab is hiring! 100% remote, and is hiring

https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/apply/

You can know about what you will make before even applying

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-compensation/#compensation-calculator

You can find out about the hiring process before it even starts

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/interviewing/

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